Professors
Randall Q. Snurr
Randy Snurr is the John G. Searle Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. He holds BSE and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively, and performed post-doctoral research at the University of Leipzig in Germany supported by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Other honors include a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Leibniz professorship at the University of Leipzig, and the Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 2019 and named a Highly Cited Researcher from 2014 to 2023 by Thomson Reuters. He served as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry and is currently on the advisory boards of Adsorption, Adsorption Science & Technology, and Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. His research interests include development of new nanoporous materials for energy and environmental applications, molecular simulation, adsorption separations, diffusion in nanoporous materials, and catalysis.